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Scruton, before attempting the endeavor himself, says there is no contemporary effort at sexual morality in philosophy. He says, for instance, that objecting to rape, is not really secular sexual morality, because it's just an extension of the morality against brutality.
Is he right? Is there no real endeavor toward secular sexual morality today?
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>>7566392
It doesn't matter because everyone just fucks each other to forget how pointless life is in the modern world
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>>7566392
Well, sex is cheap these days; I would say that modern morality surrounding sex falls into either the traditional "Abrahamic" attitudes in the decaying bastions of old societies (Evangelical, Islamic, Indian regions), or the emerging cosmopolitan morality, where the ideal is to transgress all norms.
I think that people in general don't make a very big deal about interpersonal relationships anymore, although I don't know about any intellectuals who think about this
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>>7566392
Sure. I mean what is it you always hear? "Anything's ok as long as everyone consents." Well shit, if that's all then why is any sexual crime so bad? If sex is meaningless then forcing someone to have sex is no more meaningful than forcing your kid to eat his brussel sprouts.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Rate Emma's taste, /lit/.
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a13407/16-emma-watson-approved-books-to-add-to-your-reading-list/
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the remains of the day is pretty good
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>>7566299
who?
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The BFG was pretty underrated in my view, everything else can die in a fire
Anyone knows what happened to Icycalm?
Orgy of the Will hasn't been updated in several months.
http://orgyofthewill.net/
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>>7566142
fuck you and your dead boyfriend.
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>>7566142
He grew up
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I just realized that Icycalm died mere months before Guts got off the boat
He'll be stuck repeating his life eternally without finding out the ending to his favorite comic Smh
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What are some of his rad books that are actually really worth owning?
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None of them you fucking pleb. This is a literature board.
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>>7566048
reddit tier, all of them.
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Just write what is on your chest lit. Just fucking do it, don't re read, don't spell check. Just fucking write, let out that scream that has been building inside- getting stronger after every word you've read. We don't have to critique, we can if you want, just fucking shout.
I cant stand it; I cant stand any of it. People are so willing to be ignorant, rather than educating themselves or being open to life they shut themselves in boxes to make thing easy; to make life simple. People go around just looking to gobble up the next tasty treat like some sort of mad dog: television, advertisements, Coca-Cola, drugs, fast-food, liquor, fashion, tunes, celebrities- saturated sensationalism to sponsored by cynical beings that understand the populace more than the populace would ever want to admit. There are no good corners left to hide in- youth, western refuge, is a lifestyle created by The Man in order to give life in a capitalist world the appearance of freedom. The freedom to fail, the freedom to discover, to fuck, to travel the world- but hold it kids- pack it up when you turn 30, you had your fun and now its time to contribute. And contribute to what? Societal well-being? Man kinds advancement? Advancement into what, humanity, sooner or later, will return to the void, as all things do. Or are we still breaking ourselves over the protestant work ethic? Are we still just gods good little soldiers? I am tired. I am getting older, I am getting sadder. I miss my childhood. I miss falling in love. I think i'm okay with this.
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>>7565798
It's not the 50s anymore, bub.
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>>7565798
Also: Happy New Year everyone. Nothing has to dictate who we are, who we want to be. Love yourself, I love you. I care about your pain. We dont always have to suffer, remember sometimes instead of looking at the pavement to look at the clouds. Something completely out of our control, completely beautiful, and always calming is right above our heads.
Love- OP.
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>>7565813
sometimes I feel like it might as well fucking be, same body with a different coat of paint.
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How long did it take you to read the meme trilogy?
For me it was:
IJ - 2 weeks
Gravity's Rainbow - 1 month
Ulysses - 1 month
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IJ - 2 weeks
Gravity's Rainbow - 4 months
Ulysses - 2 months
this is however unfair because I read Infinite Jest whilst unemployed and living at home so I had really nothing getting in the way of reading whereas Ulysses and GR were read at busier points of my life
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Ulysses - 4 months
Infinite Jest - 3 months
Gravity's Rainbow - 2 months
I learned how to read faster as I went down the line.
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>>7565713
I read Gravity's Rainbow in about a month (it was for an independent reading assignment junior year of high school). I've only read about 300 pages of Infinite Jest which took me one morning when I was hungover and needed something to take my mind off things. I've never tried to read Ulysses.
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/lit/ I am just bought Borges Collected Fictions.
Which short stories are must reads besides The Library of Babel?
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>>7565696
why don't you read them all?
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>>7565700
I probably will unless I hate it. So far I've read Library and the first few stories. I only ask because I might dislike him and not want to continue reading his weaker stories.
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Tatami Galaxy is so good. The translator is ready here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6q5WiBsPEu4WmY2TU9OR2ZFbDQ/view
Also, read all the ficciones
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Sadly, I can only stir up the motivation to write whenever I get really stoned. Maybe it's because this is my most comfortable state of mind. Who knows? I'll never be a writer anyway.
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>>7564600
I get good ideas when high, but I don't think I could write while high, or after getting high where you still have the brain fog.
Something about getting high seems to stimulate your memory in a way that is good for creativity. I know it's a meme, but it is true.
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>>7564600
It's just fear of discovering that what you're writing isn't actually good, so you can only write when you're stoned or drunk in order to have an excuse if it turns out shit.
You have to get over this anxiety if you're going to enjoy writing, just tell yourself that "the first draft of everything is shit" and that no one will ever see what you write until you've polished it and decide to show it to them.
Seriously, this has nothing to do with the psychotropic effects of weed and everything to do with anxiety.
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It's always said that when you're high, you think your ideas are good, but then when you're sober again, you realize that they weren't good after all. That's not true in my experience. I get ideas when I'm high that I think are brilliant even after I'm no longer high.
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If Nietzsche's ubermensch (or the "extraordinary man", in Crime and Punishment--by the way, the word for "extraordinary" here can also be translated as "transcendent") is someone, like Mohammed or Napoleon, who destroys all values to make way for values he created, then isn't Jesus Christ the greatest ubermensch who ever lived? Like with every "extraordinary man", Great bloodshed and pain were required to bring about his values (he predicted, "I do not bring peace"), but unlike with all the other ubermensch, this bloodshed and pain was wrought on his followers (starting with him). Yet more than any other man he destroyed all the old values and imposed his own.
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there has only ever been one true christian and his name was Jesus Christ
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>>7564411
No, Jesus Christ was God, and is thus above such small reason.
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>>7564468
But there is no substance to this assertion, it's just an empty assertion. If we accepted Nietzsche as a Bible and verses by him could simply be quoted an authority, that would be something else, but Nietzsche did not himself want that.
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how to spot a pseud? pic unrelated
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>>7564408
If you can't spot the pseud you're the pseud.
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>>7564427
damn...
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>>7564408
Pretty much everyone here is a pseud.
Read people here, and you'll know how a pseud behaves.
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What's the Persona 2 of literature?
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>>7564385
No Longer Human
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>>7564385
weeb loser
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>>7564399
>hating on god-tier media because it comes from Japan
Truly plebian.
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Any decent writers or thinkers who work almost exclusively on the internet. The only two important ones I can think of are Eliezer Yudkowsky and Piero Scaruffi, and I'd hate to think they are the best the web has to offer.
Reddit wasn't any help, does /lit/ know of anyone worth reading?
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>yudkowsky and scaruffi
>decent
wew lad
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>>7564390
Half decent I suppose. As in they're one of the few people on the internet who don't regurgitate others ideas.
You know of anyone better? I'd love to hear of better examples.
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>>7564384
I've thought about it. A lot, actually. I just don't see it as viable, yet, and I don't have the savings and job security to take the leap.
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did this guy do anything other than bitch about boring upper middle class folk
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Talking trash about David Foster Wallace should get you fucking banned.
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>>7564308
>>>/reddit/
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>>7564284
>implying boring upper middle class folk is not the only subject that deserves to be written about
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You can either be a happy believer, or you can be a happy nonbeliever. You cannot be happy if you are in between.
Most people are taught from birth that everything matters for some inexplainable reason. For some people this is religion, and for some people it is an abstract concept that is never explored.
If your whole life is built around everything mattering because it simply does, the idea that it doesn't is terrifying. When someone starts to lose the belief, this usually causes them a lot of distress. A midlife crisis may happen. Depression may happen.
People who keep busy with school, work, socializing, never question their belief. However, once the seed of doubt is planted, it cannot be rooted out. Once you accept that their is nothing to believe in, you can be happy, but if you try to fight it, you end up depressed and sad.
So yeah, some people are happy and never question, some people are happy with nihilism, and some people are stuck between and fruitlessly attempt to reconcile belief and non belief. That's why you're on /lit/
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im on lit because i like books you platitudinal faggot
reportd for underage
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>>7563655
That last part was stupid, people are on /lit/ for a variety of reasons.
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>>7563645
Aristotle was a believer, while Plato was not, I think.
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What are some good novels based on video games?
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LITERALLY NONE YOU FUCK
>select all waffles
that's a good one
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>>7563238
certainly not your linked image
The resi books are ok
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None
Perhaps the mgs graphic novel, if that counts.